Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me. …
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December 2, 2019
Tear Down This Wall! – Decoding K-16
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
November 12, 2019
Dumb Questions?
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
October 16, 2019
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Shame Factories of Academia
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
September 9, 2019
Teaching In the Fog of War
The United States has been waged more major wars during my life time, than in any comparable period of American history. I have somehow survived World War II, Korea,…
June 21, 2019
Addicted to the Curve
I have been told that this little story is true. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy, but its importance lies, not in its historicity, but rather in…
June 3, 2019
Lost in Lecture
DECODING CULTURAL CAPITAL “How hard is it to raise one’s hand, to approach an instructor after class, or to come to office hours to discuss a difficult assignment?” Let’s…
April 20, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 2)
But the saga of Math 100, described in the previous entry, was not over. There was a final piece of the story to be revealed. At my fiftieth high school reunion I…
April 9, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 1)
If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of…
April 7, 2019